Gary D. Schmidt
Author · 31 books
Gary D. Schmidt is an American children's writer of nonfiction books and young adult novels, including two Newbery Honor books. He lives on a farm in Alto, Michigan,with his wife and six children, where he splits wood, plants gardens, writes, feeds the wild cats that drop by and wishes that sometimes the sea breeze came that far inland. He is a Professor of English at Calvin College.
Series
Books
Straw into Gold
2001
Acceptable Words
Prayers for the Writer
2012
The Labors of Hercules Beal
2023
Been There, Done That
Writing Stories from Real Life
2015
Anson's Way
1999
Winter
A Spiritual Biography of the Season
2002
Okay for Now
2011
The Wonders of Donal O'Donnell
2002
A Long Road on a Short Day
2020
A Day at the Beach
2025
Almost Time
2020
Jupiter Rising
2024
One Smart Sheep
2021
William Bradford
Plymouth's Faithful Pilgrim
1998
Just Like That
2021
Pay Attention, Carter Jones
2019
Mara's Stories
Glimmers in the Darkness
2001
The Emmaus Readers
Listening for God in Contemporary Fiction
2008
Spring
A Spiritual Biography of the Season
2006
Saint Ciaran
The Tale of a Saint of Ireland
2000
The Blessing of the Lord
Stories from the Old and New Testaments
1997
Martin de Porres
The Rose in the Desert
2012
First Boy
2005
The Wednesday Wars
2007
So Tall Within
Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
2018
Trouble
2008
Summer
A Spiritual Biography of the Season
2005
The Sin Eater
1996
Orbiting Jupiter
2015
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
2004
What Came from the Stars
2012
